<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Godinho, Sérgio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mestre, Frederico</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ferreira, JoaquimP</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Machado, Rui</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Santos, Pedro</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Effectiveness of habitat management in the recovery of low-density populations of wild rabbit</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Journal of Wildlife Research</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental factors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Habitat management</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oryctolagus cuniculus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Portugal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Season</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10344-013-0738-3</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">59</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">847 - 858</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Understanding the relationship between spatial patterns of landscape attributes and population presence and abundance is essential for understanding population processes as well as supporting management and conservation strategies. This study evaluates the influence of three factors: environment, habitat management, and season on the presence and abundance of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), an important prey species for Mediterranean endangered predator species. To address this issue, we estimated wild rabbit presence and abundance by latrine counting in transects located in 45 plots within a 250 × 250 m grid from June 2007 until June 2009 in a 1,200 ha hunting area in southern Portugal. We then analyzed how wild rabbit presence and abundance correlate with the aforementioned factors. Our results showed that the main variable influencing wild rabbit presence and abundance was the distance to the artificial warrens. North and northeast slope directions were negatively related to wild rabbit presence. Conversely, rabbit presence was positively correlated with short distances to ecotone, artificial warrens, and spring. Regarding rabbit abundance, in addition to artificial warrens, soft soils, bushes, and season also had a positive effect. We found that environmental variables, management practices, and season each affect wild rabbit presence and abundance differently at a home range scale in low-density population. Thus, our major recommendations are reducing the distance to artificial warrens and ecotone, ideally to less than 100 m, and promoting habitat quality improvement on slopes with plenty of sun exposure.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ceballos Barbancho, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shanabel, S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cerdá, A</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Estudio de la variabilidad temporal y espacial de la pérdida de suelo en la dehesa (Extremadura, SO España) mediante lluvia simulada</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geographicalia</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dehesa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rainfall simulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">runoff</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Season</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sediment concentration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">soil loss</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19-36</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The inain objective of this paper is to study the influence of the seasonal variability of tlze antecedent conditions in soil losses in a dehesa ecosystem, as well as an approach to its spatial variability. The experimental layout includes forty rainfall simulation experiments carried out in two different situa- tions: first on dry conditions, with degraded vegetation, and, second on wet con- ditions, with an important vegetation cover. The results indicate that the highest sediiilent concentrations are located in situations with bare soils, due to the effect of the drought and the soil remo- ved by grazing animals. The control of the process depends more to tlie sediment available on the soil surface than to the runoff transport capacity. From an spatial point of view, it liighlights the contrast between tlie low los- ses registered in the valley bottoms and the highest values measured in tlie areas more frequented by the livestock, where the degradation of the vege- tation cover and the removal of tlie soil material are continuous. Finally, although the rate of soil loss in the dehesa is low, it is important froin a qua- litative point of view because it affects to the inost fertile horizon in the soil profile</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ceballos Barbancho, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shanabel, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cerdà, A.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Estudio de la variabilidad temporal y espacial de la pérdida de suelo en la dehesa (Extremadura, SO España) mediante lluvia simulada</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geographicalia</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dehesa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">rainfall simulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">runoff</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Season</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sediment concentration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">soil loss</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=257338</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19 - 36</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The inain objective of this paper is to study the influence of the seasonal variability of tlze antecedent conditions in soil losses in a dehesa ecosystem, as well as an approach to its spatial variability. The experimental layout includes forty rainfall simulation experiments carried out in two different situa- tions: first on dry conditions, with degraded vegetation, and, second on wet con- ditions, with an important vegetation cover. The results indicate that the highest sediiilent concentrations are located in situations with bare soils, due to the effect of the drought and the soil remo- ved by grazing animals. The control of the process depends more to tlie sediment available on the soil surface than to the runoff transport capacity. From an spatial point of view, it liighlights the contrast between tlie low los- ses registered in the valley bottoms and the highest values measured in tlie areas more frequented by the livestock, where the degradation of the vege- tation cover and the removal of tlie soil material are continuous. Finally, although the rate of soil loss in the dehesa is low, it is important froin a qua- litative point of view because it affects to the inost fertile horizon in the soil profile</style></abstract></record></records></xml>